QUOTE: Will Baude has an interesting reflection on the death penalty:
"Although unconvinced by the empirical claim that our current system of occasionally killing convicted murderers has any deterrent effect, I nonetheless think that people who commit heinous murders generally deserve to die.
The death penalty smacks of infallibility, to be sure, and that makes me uneasy. On the other hand, acting in the world almost always smacks of some degree of infallibility. We build solid structures, we entrench governmental systems, we reject certain options, paths, and forks forever.
And so, here. That states bother to retain their death penalty systems even though they are expensive, cumbersome, and so rarely employed as to be of little practical use has always struck me as rather odd, but not bad. Efficiency should not be the only goal of the criminal justice system."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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